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As a side note, the /r/AskHistorians subreddit is absolutely fascinating, both from a subject-matter perspective, but also from the perspective of an exploration of the extreme ends of moderation policy. Specifically, the moderators have a zero tolerance policy towards unresearched and uncited answers. If you give an answer that is poorly cited, your comment gets deleted.

The practical result is mainly seen in two ways. The first is when extremely interesting questions end up with no answers (the running joke is entire comment chains of [deleted]s). But the second is that when a question does receive an answer, it is usually brilliantly and thoroughly answered, with assumed followup questions answered as well. And those posts end up getting linked to by other social media platforms, paraphrased and summarized on websites like Atlasobscura, and plagiarized by clickbaiters.

parent darksaints 5 years ago

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